I’ve been “Linux-adjacent” for years, and recently switched my main gaming computer over to it. And I’ve seen exactly those frustrations so many times.

The good AND bad part about user-managed software is that the developer-users decide how things work, then things stay that way until other developer-users do things differently.

My most recent frustration? Drive automounting on boot.

On Windows or Mac, all physical drives mount when the system boots up.

On most, but all, varieties of Linux, it seems ONLY the system drive is mounted.

This gave me trouble when I tried to set a second drive as the default location for Steam.

Every time I rebooted, the Steam client forgot that I had a second hard drive. I didn’t realize why, because in system settings I told the computer to mount all drives on boot.

But. But.

By default, Bazzite seems to set secondary drives as external, rather than internal. Spork knows why.

So I had to sift through forum posts until I discovered that the internal drive was being seen as external. Then I had to figure out the combination of partition management tools and console commands to tell the system to mount the drive as an internal drive, rather than external.

It now works perfectly - after over an hour of research and a couple days of frustration.

There are two problems: 1. An extremely basic thing doesn’t work the way the majority of users expect it to, and 2. A majority of developer-users apparently think it works fine as it is and doesn’t need to be changed.

So I feel your pain. I’d rather be using Linux now for gaming and for my 3D printing related hobbies.

But for my day job, I’m on PC or Mac. I have to be, because I can’t stop working for two hours while I troubleshoot and find a solution to an obscure problem.

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Several distros have those kinds of utilities built in.

Synaptics Package Manager comes preinstalled in lots of Debian derivatives.

Manjaro, Bazzite, and Endeavour have their own bespoke update managers. (Others do, as well, but those are the three non-Debians I’ve used most recently.)

Usually, some type of pun based on the hardware.

I mean, Manjaro wasthe first distro I truly used regularly.

But I’m no stranger to command lines, so there’s that.

Make sure everybody owns a a Nintendo DS, then load up Pictochat.

A utility to map extruded lines/objects/shapes to STL files. For example, say you have an STL of a curved vase. You want to add a spiral to it. So you place the photo of a spiral on the object. The utility lets you decide where on the STL it’ll be placed, then you can decide the extrusion depth (positive or negative).

Possibly including some type of LLM, too. So you can import your STL, then type something like “picture of the Simpsons in the style of ancient Greek amphora vase paintings.” It’ll appear as line art on the 3D object

Note that I don’t need this, myself. You want to work on something interesting, so I thought for a few minutes and came up with this. :)